Affiliate Disclosure

What Is an Affiliate Link?

An affiliate link is a specially tracked URL that allows us to earn a small commission if you click the link and subsequently make a purchase — at absolutely no additional cost to you. The price you pay is identical whether you use our link or navigate to the retailer directly.

Amazon Associates Program

The Publishing Times is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, and other Amazon marketplace sites.

Our Amazon affiliate tag is seperts-20. When you click an Amazon link on this site and make a purchase within 24 hours, we may receive a commission of between 1% and 10% of the sale price, depending on the product category. This commission comes from Amazon, not from you.

How We Identify Affiliate Content

We make every effort to clearly identify affiliate content on this site. You will see the following indicators:

• Ad blocks labeled "Sponsored · Amazon" or "AFFILIATE" in the sidebar and homepage
• The sitewide disclosure bar displayed at the top of every page
• This dedicated Affiliate Disclosure page, linked from the footer of every page
• HTML rel="sponsored" attributes on all affiliate links for search engine transparency

Other Affiliate Programs

In addition to Amazon, The Publishing Times may participate in affiliate programs for other publishing-related tools and services, including but not limited to:

• Scrivener (Literature & Latte)
• Draft2Digital
• Reedsy
• Other self-publishing software and services

When we recommend a product or service through an affiliate program, we will disclose this relationship at the point of recommendation.

Editorial Independence

Affiliate relationships do not influence our editorial content. Our news aggregation, reviews, and editorial opinions are entirely independent of any commercial relationships. We only recommend products and services that we genuinely believe offer value to our readers. We will never recommend a product solely because it pays a higher commission.

FTC Compliance

This disclosure is provided in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR Part 255 guidelines on endorsements and testimonials in advertising. The FTC requires that material connections between endorsers and advertisers be clearly disclosed. Our use of affiliate links constitutes such a material connection, and we disclose it accordingly.

If you have questions about whether a specific link on this site is an affiliate link, please contact us and we will clarify.

Questions or Concerns

If you have any questions about our affiliate relationships, our disclosure practices, or how we select products to recommend, please contact us at [email protected].